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Profound Science and Elegant Literature Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America Stephanie P. Browner <p>"This meticulous study of the descent and ascent of medical reputations considers fiction and visual art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with medical journals and letters circulated among members of the profession. . . . Comprehensive and utterly readable."--<i>Choice</i></p> <p>In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating medical practice had been repealed; and professional practitioners were often branded by their lay competitors as aristocrats bent on establishing a health care monopoly. By 1900, the battles were over, and, as the president of AMA had hoped, doctors were now widely venerated as men of profound science, elegant literature, polite accomplishments, and virtue. In fact, by 1900 the doctor had replaced the minister as the most esteemed professional in the United States; disease loomed larger than damna
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- Author
- Browner, Stephanie P.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812238259
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History
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